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Features archive - November 2008

• Identity crisis for Tibetan muslims
  ON THE WEB, 29 November 2008 (The Week)
  In Tibet they were known as khache [Kashmiri Muslims]. In Kashmir they are called Tibetan Muslims. The small Muslim community that fled Tibet after China's invasion in 1959 are in constant search of their identity in Kashmir. ...
• Tibetan glaciers melting at stunning rate
  ON THE WEB, 24 November 2008 (Discovery)
  Glaciers high in the Himalayas are dwindling faster than anyone thought, putting nearly a billion people living in South Asia in peril of losing their water supply. ...
• UN: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health
  BEIJING, China, 14 November 2008 (AP)
  A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, ...
• Lost horizon found
  DIQANG, Tibet, 12 November 2008 (China Daily)
  Turquoise-blue waters and pristine, evergreen forests make Potatso National Park, in Yunnan province, a magnet for tourists from home and abroad. ...
• Tibetan exile moves to Breckenridge
  BRECKENRIDGE, CO, USA, 11 November 2008 (Summit Daily News)
  A man who lived three years in a cave, escaped China on foot and nearly passed out in the trunk of a taxi now practices Tibetan massage therapy in Breckenridge. ...
• Critiquing neocolonial discourses on the Tibet question
  ON THE WEB,
  Dibyesh Anand’s book is an interrogation of exoticized Western representations of Tibet and Tibetans, and analyses of their significance for the Tibet question. ...